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Earliest Memory – sharing early memories with each other in written and oral form. Stranger than Friction – science based experiments with objects and surfaces. Right or Wrong – general knowledge and spelling activities. Holiday Destinations – interviewing other students and parents about places in New Zealand plus thumbnail sketches of local and overseas destinations.

Communicating feelings with music and appropriate instruments. Matching maths activities with activities and apparatus to help develop and understanding of these concepts. Investigations into pop music.

All about being cold. Investigations into how and why we feel cold, what measures we take to combat being cold, finding out how penguins combat the cold and the equivalent clothing a human would have to wear to be as insulated from the cold as a penguin.

MOSTLY ABOUT BOOKS. How do we organise the books in the classroom or school library? Exploring different criteria. Forming special book clubs around special attributes or characters of books and running a 'Book Mastermind' student challenge.

Short activities based on ideas about rivers, fish and our aquatic environment in general. Cross-curricula in nature with a science, English and social sciences theme. Links to the arts and mathematics. Teachers can expand on any of the ideas easily to make a topic for a larger unit of work.

Of all the classroom technologies to come along, the multimedia projector – probably more than any other, has started a revolution in the way we approach the teaching and learning task with our students. In this article we explain the why, how and what about using this technology.